Chapter 168: Placing an Order for the Arsenal
When the Japanese first started buying silver, Shi Shi'an thought that they were just as interested in the profits that silver would bring, but after Li Han said it again, his mind changed a little. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In addition, Japan was looking for agents everywhere in China, and even did not hesitate to use force to support Chinese businessmen in smuggling silver, Shi Shi'an completely believed that these Japanese brutes were really not well-intentioned.
The Japanese virtue Shi Shi'an knows too well that when he has benefits, he always wants to eat and wipe clean by himself. In order to dominate North China, they even turned their faces to their former big brothers, the British.
How could such a person take out the benefits and share them with Chinese businessmen who had never been in their eyes?
This discovery made Shi Shi'an very angry, the little devil was not satisfied with using the Chinese's silver to make money, and even wanted to take the opportunity to plunge the Chinese government into chaos, and the shameless realm of the Japanese had reached a depth that no one had ever heard of and never seen.
Although he was very angry, he did not approve of Li Han directly grabbing silver, and the Japanese were able to do this because Japan was stronger than the Republic of China.
But will Chahar be stronger than Japan! Apparently impossible! As long as the Japanese army dispatched two divisions, the security army had only one way to lose.
"We're three months away from the Silver Act, and we can use that time to get it done. Besides, the Japanese would never have imagined that someone would pay attention to their silver, and the old regiment commander could rest assured that I would not act rashly if I was not sure.
This time, I invited you to come here, mainly to take you to live with us and visit our arsenal, but unfortunately although most of the equipment is complete, the rifleman has never been found. ”
Wang Wei has always been in charge of the affairs of the arsenal, and Li Han has not asked about the affairs of the arsenal since he gave Wang Wei three million silver dollars.
On the contrary, several brigade commanders will often run to Zhangjiakou to find Wang Wei for news, although they are not in the same system now, but after all, they are comrades who rolled over in the trenches, and they can't stand their stubbornness, Wang Wei still told the progress of the arsenal.
Although Li Han told Wang Wei that the problem of technical personnel should be solved by himself, he has not had a chance to take care of it recently because of the problems of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Decisive Corps and Baiyin.
In fact, Li Han already had several goals in mind for the technicians, the Shanghai Arsenal was forced to suspend production because of the 128 Incident, and the original workers, except for a small number of high-level and some elites who were transferred to Nanjing by the Nanjing government, the others were disbanded on the spot after the Shanghai Arsenal was disbanded three months later.
In addition to Shanghai, after the Shenyang Arsenal was occupied by devils, the Japanese dismissed a large number of the original employees of the arsenal for safety reasons, and many technical backbones were unwilling to work for the Japanese and resigned on their own initiative.
Li Han, a technician from Shanghai, had already sent someone to invite him, and now he was almost there, but whether it was the scale or the level of technical personnel, the Shanghai Arsenal could not be compared with the Shenyang Arsenal, so whether the arsenal could successfully produce guns was the key to the technicians in the northeast.
This matter Li Han planned to hand over to the Northeast Anti-Japanese Death Corps to complete, the Japanese army had occupied Shenyang for almost three years, and the monitoring of those laid-off employees in the arsenal had long been not as strict as it had been at the beginning, and the current strength of the Death Corps should not be difficult to send them out of Fengtian.
It has been more than a month since the start of construction of the arsenal, and he has never been to it once, Li Han is also a little unsure, the arsenal is related to the lifeblood of the security army.
In the consideration of secrecy, core enterprises such as the arsenal generally have to choose a relatively remote place, not to mention Chahar, which is always facing the danger of the Japanese army, so Wang Wei and the others chose to set the site of the arsenal in the commercial capital.
In order to ensure safety, Li Han also sent a security regiment to be stationed here for a long time, in addition to the original wall of the entire arsenal, it was also tightly sealed with barbed wire outside the arsenal.
There were many people who came with Li Han this time, and Wang Wei was the only one in the government department, because he was responsible for everything in the arsenal. However, there were quite a few people from the security army, including Gao Jian, chief of staff, Shi Shi'an, commander of the 145th Division, Wang Dazhu of the 145th Brigade, Zhang Tie of the 155th Brigade, and Lin Youzhi of the Independent Brigade.
Jin Long, the head of the military guard regiment, took a guard company to act as a security officer, if it weren't for the fact that the troops couldn't be left alone, Li Han also planned to call Hu Zhi, Li Yong, Yan Chihuo, Huang Shan and others over.
After Wang Wei received three million silver dollars from Li Han, he immediately began the work of building an arsenal, he personally participated in the procurement of machinery, contacted Wei, and set up a bullet production line first, and at the same time sent people to Shanghai and Taiyuan to discuss the purchase of 75-caliber field artillery and mountain artillery shells production technology.
After more than a month of busyness, the basic work of the arsenal has been completed, but the rifle production line has not been named, and there is still a shortage of technical personnel related to machinery.
Of course, Li Han and Wang Wei said that he would solve this point, and now that the preparations for the arsenal have been completed, Wang Wei is waiting to see Li Han's actions.
As soon as they arrived at the arsenal, they were greeted by the roar of machines, and a group of generals saw rows of tall chimneys, and below the chimneys were rows of tall factories, like giant beasts, constantly spitting black smoke and white steam into the sky.
The arsenal covers a huge area, except for Wang Wei, all the generals, including Li Han, were dumbfounded, and at this time they knew why it would cost so much money to build an arsenal.
"The person in charge of the military seat and the arsenal is called Liao Zhilong, who once studied at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany, and he was specially dug from Beiping by Director Yan."
After arriving at the arsenal, Wang Wei began to introduce, and it happened that Liao Zhilong also brought the person in charge of the arsenal to greet Li Han.
"Welcome to the military seat and the commanders."
Liao Zhilong is a middle-aged man about thirty-five years old, wearing a gray-black Mao suit, and thick rubber-soled shoes on his feet.
Because of his identity, Li Han also came into contact with a lot of returnees who stayed abroad, and these people who went abroad gave him the impression that they were wearing suits, leather shoes, and ties around their necks, looking superior, although they may not feel this way.
Liao Zhilong left a good impression on Li Han, because he felt that this was like a person who did things, if he wore a suit and collar all day in the arsenal, how could he still work.
"Director Liao, don't be formal, what's the current situation in the arsenal, along the way, I saw that several large factories were empty." Li Han asked with a smile.
"Junza, those factories are used to install the rifle production line, because there are no technicians and rifle blueprints, so we put the rifle production line machine to the end, but it will be solved this month." Liao Zhilong replied.
"You don't have to worry about the technical staff and the design drawings of the rifle, I will solve this problem within this month. If the equipment and personnel are ready, when will the rifle be able to be officially produced. Li Han asked.
Hearing Li Han personally say that he would solve the technical and personnel problems, Liao Zhilong showed a happy face, he is the director of the arsenal, but the arsenal can't even produce rifles, and he, the factory director, is naturally very embarrassed.
"If the machines and personnel are all in place, and there is the original shooting map of the rifle, plus the trial manufacturing and testing time, it will take about half a month." Liao Zhilong replied silently in his heart.
When Li Han heard this, he was very excited, this is his own gun, and the arsenal is after it is put into production, at least in terms of rifles, he doesn't have to worry about being stuck in the neck by others.
Liao Zhilong's words have been made very clear, the arsenal is finished, and the drawings are sent.
"Junza, didn't you hear that the matter of the bullet and artillery shell production line has been resolved, why haven't we seen it for so long?" Wang Dazhu asked.
As soon as Wang Dazhu's words fell, several other brigade commanders also looked at Li Han with one hope, and these people were very realistic. Of course, what they wanted to see most when they came to the arsenal was a rifle.
However, at the moment, there are not even the machines to produce rifles, and bullets and shells are naturally the most attractive to them, and comparing these things can directly enhance the combat effectiveness of their troops.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please follow me, we have two bullet production lines, one is a production line of six or five calibers and three or eight large caps.
The other is a 79-caliber bullet production line, which is currently capable of producing 8,000 rounds of 79-pointed bullets and 10,000 rounds of 65-caliber bullets per day. Workers are not very familiar with the process now, and after a while, the output of bullets will be even higher. Liao Zhilong said as he walked.
"As for artillery shells, although the production lines of Qiwu mountain artillery and field artillery have been purchased from Taiyuan and Nanjing, they are still being tested due to technical problems, but it is expected that after formal production, it may reach 100 shells per day."
"Okay, Yan Lao is really a discerning talent, and with Director Liao in charge of the officer and soldier factory, the arms of the security army will be guaranteed in the future."
Soon the group came to the workshop where the bullets were produced, and watching countless yellow bullets flow in front of their eyes, Li Han said with a smile.
"Chief of Staff, after you go back, let the people in the logistics department draw up a contract, first place an order for one million rounds of ammunition from the arsenal, and then place a contract for 50,000 rounds of artillery shells after the shells are produced."
In the future, the ammunition consumption and light weapons supply of the security army can be borne by the Chahar arsenal, otherwise, as the number of troops increases, the annual consumption of weapons and ammunition alone will be several million silver dollars.